The IU Center for Bioethics (IUCB) is excited to announce the addition of Josh Rager, MD, MA, MS as a faculty investigator of the center.
He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a Research Scientist at the Center for the Health Services Research at the Regenstrief Institute. He received both his Doctor of Medicine and Master’s degree in Bioethics from Indiana University and completed his internal medicine residency at IU as well. Before beginning practice at IU Health University Hospital, he completed a health services research fellowship through the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Rager’s research focuses on the development of evidence-based ways to help patients and clinicians make better medical decisions about preventive services. He is interested in ways to estimate and integrate individualized risk and benefit to identify patients for whom the clinical evidence may not clearly support one medical option over another, and therefore decisions need to consider patient preferences and values. Within these areas, he pursues ways to improve shared decision-making and enhance policies and guidelines that seek to promote more personalized, patient-centered care.
Read more about Dr. Rager on her faculty page at the IU Center for Bioethics (here), IU School of Medicine (here), and the Regenstreif Institute (here).